On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi - > Updated my old project named "ext3carve" and renamed it as "extcarve" . It > uses libext2fs. (To be precise,re-uses on 'debugfs' command's "dump_unused" > feature) > > In summary,the tool will do the following - It will scan the linux machine > ,for unused/deleted blocks and search for magic signatures. If it finds > valid signature (both header and footer) It saves the file at given external > drive. > > Now it can recover- non-fragmented (like png,jpg,gif,html,c/cpp/php,pdf > files) deleted files.One main advantage is that it opens the affected > partitions on read-only mode,thus no changes made to affected disk.Disk > remains the same - regardless of whether extcarve recovers them or not. > > Simply usage would be - > 1. Copy extcarve binary to Pen drive. > 2. Plug-in the pen-drive to affected system.(the system from where you want > to recover files) > 3.Attach an external harddrive to affected system so that recovered files > will be stored on external hdd. > 3. Run the extcarve from within pendrive - Provide affected drive as input > and external drive as output directory. > Checkout recovered files at external hdd. > > Download url - www.giis.co.in/giis > Any feedbacks/comments are welcome. > What are the pros and cons when compared to ext3grep and extundelete? In addition, what is the Pen drive? I mean, since we need to attach an external harddrive, why don't we run the command within the harddrive? Regards Jidong _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
